{"id":73062,"date":"2025-08-13T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73062"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:10:24","slug":"nigerian-shot-putter-chukwuebuka-enekwechi-wins-bronze-at-gyulai-istvan-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/13\/nigerian-shot-putter-chukwuebuka-enekwechi-wins-bronze-at-gyulai-istvan-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Shot Putter Chukwuebuka Enekwechi Wins Bronze at Gyulai Istv\u00e1n Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, African record holder in the men\u2019s shot put, claimed bronze at the Gyulai Istv\u00e1n Memorial in Szekesfehervar, Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Enekwechi recorded a throw of 21.15 meters, finishing behind two-time World Champion Joe Kovacs of the USA (22.33m) and New Zealand\u2019s Tom Walsh (21.52m).<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian athlete\u2019s performance further underscores his status as one of Africa\u2019s leading shot putters.<\/p>\n<p>The Gyulai Istv\u00e1n Memorial, part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series, attracted top global competitors, providing a platform for world-class performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Njoku Chijioke Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, African record holder in the men\u2019s shot put, claimed bronze at the Gyulai Istv\u00e1n Memorial in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Enekwechi recorded a throw of 21.15 meters, finishing behind two-time World Champion Joe Kovacs of the USA (22.33m) and New Zealand\u2019s Tom Walsh (21.52m). The Nigerian athlete\u2019s performance further underscores his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73064,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73062\/revisions\/73064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}